15 Facts About Plaxton

Plaxton is an English builder of bus and coach vehicle bodies based in Scarborough.

FW Plaxton junior was to be known as Eric to avoid confusion with his father.

In 1957 the founder of the company, FW Plaxton Senior, died, and was succeeded as Chairman by his son Frederick Junior, though known as Eric.

Alongside the Bloomfields VAL on the Plaxton stand was a further revised Panorama.

Again a bit of a Plaxton that was instantly recognisable and a familiar sight throughout Britain.

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Plaxton launched a new design – the Panorama Elite – at the 1968 Commercial Motor Show in London.

In 1989 Plaxton responded to a request from the privatised National Express for a further version of Paramount III to be leased to its contractors by a joint venture of Plaxton, National Westminster Bank and National Express.

In July 1989, Plaxton bought the manufacturing rights for the coach products of its main domestic competitor, Duple for £4 million.

The UK bus and coach manufacturing business, trading under the Plaxton brand, continued to produce a range of bus and coach bodywork.

On 17 May 2004, the Plaxton business was sold in a management buyout and resumed trading as Plaxton Limited.

Plaxton employed almost 300 people at its main coach plant in Scarborough and a further 59 at its facility in Anston, which builds small buses and coaches such as the Beaver and Cheetah.

In May 2005, Plaxton announced its return to the service bus market, launching the Centro, a low-floor single-deck vehicle initially to be offered on VDL SB120 chassis, in 10.

In May 2007, Plaxton was purchased by Alexander Dennis, effectively recreating the TransBus International business.

In 2008, the new Plaxton Elite was launched at Birmingham Euro Bus Expo and by 2011 had delivered 100 Elites.

Since the end of production of the Centro, Primo and Pronto, Plaxton do not currently produce any of their own-branded buses.